the crimson

Transfer Students
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<p>Also at the Feb. 11 Faculty meeting:</p>

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<li>Dean Lewis, in response to a question from the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, emphasized that there will be no increase in the total number of students in the College. According to Lewis, the number of first-year students will rise by about 30 next year while the number of transfer students will decline correspondingly. The move is motivated by the extraordinary strength of the freshman applicant pools in recent years. Apley Court, a dormitory on Holyoke Street, is being renovated to house members of the expanded freshman class. Lewis said there are no plans to eliminate the transfer admissions program.</li>
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<p>well, hey, no, that is not ok dean lewis.... i mean, i worked way too hard all year and poured my soul into your essays and now there will be 20-40 acceptees from a pool of over a thousand?! what if there's an extrordinarily strong transfer applicant pool? this just ruined my night, no joke.</p>

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<p>i am sorry... it doesn't kick in until next year though. so we either make it now or we get condemned forever. did you get your midterm grades?</p>

<p>P.S. has Harvard cashed your check yet?</p>

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<p>oh haha, that makes me feel better. I'm staying wherever I end up next year anyway. My mid-terms aren't till two weeks from now, so I'm going to send them at the beginning of April, but I think I'll be looking at a 4.0 for mid-terms unless something goes drastically wrong. At this point, I don't even think it makes much difference. I want to send them more supplementary materials, but I don't know what to send. I want to accomplish something significant between now and... two weeks from now to send them. And yeah, they have my check, haha. Hope that Feb 16 postmark on the check doesn't kill my chances, they said it wouldn't. </p>

<p>Off to work on NYU and BC applications just in case.</p>

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<p>hey,</p>

<p>i don't think i'll send that much more in, but why two weeks from now? is that when they start evaluating the full slate of candidates?</p>

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<p>harvard has not cashed my check yet</p>

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<p>you might want to double check that news report... wasn't it from 1997?</p>

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<p>It could be... I could have sworn that I checked the date... twice. I thought that the 1997 one was the precedent.</p>

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<p>The excerpt you posted was from</p>

<p><a href="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/02.20/FASSetsNewMinim.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/02.20/FASSetsNewMinim.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>so I thought it would be from 1997. You could be right though... either way this doesn't affect this year's round of transfer apps. I really hope that it is from 1997 and not next year, though, because a lot of students seem to be deserving of a transfer spot.</p>

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<p>seriously, i think ppl are wasting their time/money applying to a place like harvard as a transfer, they accept less than 5 percent, what is the odds
i don't even feel comfortable with Penn's sub 20 percent and Columbia's sub 10 percent</p>

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<p>i agree. Take your application fee and go to the casino.</p>

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<p>Its not as if the RD decision rate for freshman admissions is a heck of a lot better.</p>

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<p>i still recommend it's better to take your money to the casino for RD applicants, even though the acceptance rate is twice as high.</p>

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<p>i bet the 1600 freshman at harvard would beg to differ, and the 75 transfers</p>

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<p>And this is the difference between me and you. You are not the first that has advised me to either go to a casino, buy new DIESEL jeans, invest my money, buy three bottles of Grey Goose for each school I am applying to, throw a party and all that. I don't care about the percentage; I don't care about how many people with 1580 SAT get rejected. I will do this and nobody can stop me. I am not arrogant. I just know that if you give up you automatically admit that you have lead an average life and that you will never know yourself beyond your limit. Only you can stop yourself from being accepted.
And if I fail... Well, it is not until you have lost everything that you are free do do anything. Then in two years I will apply to medical schools with acceptance rates from 3.1 to 5.8 % percent. Only after this, after I have tried I will stop and I will give up. Until then, bet on black for me.</p>

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<p>how poetic and poignant... sort of</p>

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<p>how unneccisarily *****y</p>

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<p>i can't read the stars but you can PM it to me...</p>

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<p>more power to ya.</p>

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<p>not you, martini, i was saying to dartstarrising that he was being rude</p>